The hardest bones, containing the richest marrow, can be conquered only by a united crushing of all the teeth of all dogs. That of course is only a figure of speech and exaggerated; if all teeth were...
Leo en Dostoievski el pasaje que tanto se asemeja a ser desdichado
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
An und für sich ist uns das Lachen immer nah; trotz allem Jammer unseres Lebens ist ein leises Lachen bei uns gewissermaßen immer zu Hause.
One must not cheat anybody not even the world of one's triumph.
But all remains unchanged.
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A b...
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Many complain that the words of the wise are always merely parables and of no use in daily life, which is the only life we have. When the sage says: Go over, he does not mean that we should cross over...
It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for faith, for love or repugnance, for courage or anxiety, in particular or in general, only a vague...
Isolation is a way to know ourselves.
Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results.
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and th...
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Yours(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)
Das Negative zu tun, ist uns noch auferlegt, das Positive ist uns schon gegeben.
All right then, I’ll be mad at you on this score, which incidentally is no great misfortune, as things balance out quite well if there’s a little anger for you lurking in one corner of my heart.